Naming Invercargill

At a celebratory dinner in Dunedin in 1856 in honour
of the visit of Governor Thomas Gore Browne the guest of
honour proposed naming the town at the Bluff after the
Otago provincial superintendent, William Cargill. With
the prefix ‘Inver’ – Scots for mouth of a river –
Invercargill came into the world. Its previous name was
Inverkelly, named for an early resident.